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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!wwkiii
- From: wwkiii@shell.portal.com (Walter William Kemmerer)
- Subject: Re: Printing Unix files on 2200/422
- Message-ID: <Bz7vCq.17M@unix.portal.com>
- Keywords: printer unix 2200
- Sender: news@unix.portal.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe
- Organization: Portal Communications Company
- References: <cld1.724084419@Isis.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:22:01 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- Hi Charles - Long time no speak! Re printing to 2200/xxx line printers from
- a Sun network... Do you have a connection (directly or indirectly) from your
- 2200 to the Sun network? If you've got a U6000 in the mix, this is a pretty
- simple thing to solve. If not, it's still solvable, but not as pretty. Here
- we go with some examples I've implemented at other places during my life as a
- Unisys and unix hack:
-
- 1. U6000 solution: Put a U6000 in connection to your 2200 network. Use either
- Ethernet or comm DCA, doesn't matter. Software required in U6000 is IS6000
- and software required in 2200 is DDP-FJT (because DDP-PPC is now part of
- the base O/S per last USE conference Q&A). Then implement a print queue in
- the Sun boxes that fires a shell that actually copies the printfile from
- the Sun box to the U6000 box, and then remote shells into the ISSPOOL
- program (part of IS6000). Use of this method keeps you from having to run
- both DDPFJT and DDPPS as background runs in the 2200; you only need the
- DDPFJT stuff (use of DDPPS would mean using ISSYM instead of ISSPOOL, else
- the scenario remains the same). I've got this in a client's shop that is
- HW:Solborne/Sun/Dell/Pyramid, SW:SunOS/SVR4, and they love it - nobody
- prints large stuff on the Unix side anymore, it's all line print output
- now. Down side of this is that the darned S/W is *expensive*, and that
- you need a *U6000* box in the mix. If you've got a SPO, however, you've
- already got both Unix parts, so it's a no-cost solution other than the
- darned host software.
-
- 2. Non-U6000 Case: Still need connection to the 2200 somehow. With a LAN
- connection and DDN2200, you can set up the Sun queues to fire an FTP up
- and slap the printfile into the 2200 using a unique filename pattern.
- Then you slap together a small background run that scans for files of
- that pattern, and enqueues the files into their patterns' associated
- 2200 print queues. This is not a cheap solution, however, because the
- software is *still expensive*. You might be able to pull this off with
- one of the UPLI packages, the TCP/IP 1100 FTP service which is buried in
- the last UOM Distribution Tape. This would require a BTI box, which is
- the same thing as an HLC (made by Bus Tech Indistries, same folks that make
- the original HLC for unisys and the CPA for STK) but costs a lot less, and
- a BMX connection to hang it on.
-
- Anyway, this is just a couple of ideas. There are others (e.g. PCPRINT and
- smart printers and the like), but all of this just supports my read of the
- Open Systems thrust that Unisys and so many others are embarked on these
- days: THE PROBLEM IS NOT FINDING A SOLUTION, OR THE MYTHICAL RIGHT SOLUTION,
- BUT JUST PICKING ONE OF THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS AND THEN MAKING IT STICK.
-
- Gee, sounds like I'm gonna be doing this for a while!
-
- Cheers, Walt.
-
-